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linux: add support for initramfs

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In Buildroot, the kernel is built and installed *before* the root
filesystems are built. This allows the root filesystem to correctly
contain the kernel modules that have been installed.

However, in the initramfs case, the root filesystem is part of the
kernel. Therefore, the kernel should be built *after* the root
filesystem (which, in the initramfs case simply builds a text file
listing all files/directories/devices/symlinks that should be part of
the initramfs). However, this isn't possible as the initramfs text
file would lack all kernel modules.

So, the solution choosen here is to keep the normal order: kernel is
built before the root filesystem is generated, and to add a little
quirk to retrigger a kernel compilation after the root filesystem
generation.

To do so, we add a ROOTFS_$(FSTYPE)_POST_TARGETS variable to the
fs/common.mk infrastructure. This allows individual filesystems to set
a target name that we should depend on *after* generating the root
filesystem itself (contrary to normal ROOTFS_$(FSTYPE)_DEPENDENCIES,
on which we depend *before* generating the root filesystem).

The initramfs code in fs/initramfs/initramfs.mk uses this to add a
dependency on 'linux26-rebuild-with-initramfs'.

In linux/linux.mk, we do various things :

 * If BR2_TARGET_ROOTFS_INITRAMFS is enabled (i.e if initramfs is
   enabled as a root filesystem type), then we create an empty
   rootfs.initramfs file (remember that at this point, the root
   filesystem hasn't been generated) and we adjust the kernel
   configuration to include an initramfs. Of course, in the initial
   kernel build, this initramfs will be empty.

 * In the linux26-rebuild-with-initramfs target, we retrigger a
   compilation of the kernel image, after removing the initramfs in
   the kernel sources to make sure it gets properly rebuilt (we've
   experienced cases were modifying the rootfs.initramfs file wouldn't
   retrigger the generation of the initramfs at the kernel level).

This is fairly quirky, but initramfs really is a special case, so in
one way or another, we need a little quirk to solve its specialness.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
This commit is contained in:
Thomas Petazzoni 2010-06-13 19:19:38 +02:00
parent 4944e8c883
commit f507921d39
3 changed files with 37 additions and 1 deletions
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fs/common.mk
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@ -19,6 +19,10 @@
# ROOTFS_$(FSTYPE)_POST_GEN_HOOKS, a list of hooks to call after
# generating the filesystem image
#
# ROOTFS_$(FSTYPE)_POST_TARGETS, the list of targets that should be
# run after running the main filesystem target. This is useful for
# initramfs, to rebuild the kernel once the initramfs is generated.
#
# In terms of configuration option, this macro assumes that the
# BR2_TARGET_ROOTFS_$(FSTYPE) config option allows to enable/disable
# the generation of a filesystem image of a particular type. If
@ -60,7 +64,7 @@ endif
$(1)-root-show-depends:
@echo $(ROOTFS_$(2)_DEPENDENCIES) host-fakeroot host-makedevs $(if $(BR2_TARGET_ROOTFS_$(2)_LZMA),host-lzma)
$(1)-root: $(BINARIES_DIR)/rootfs.$(1)
$(1)-root: $(BINARIES_DIR)/rootfs.$(1) $(ROOTFS_$(2)_POST_TARGETS)
ifeq ($$(BR2_TARGET_ROOTFS_$(2)),y)
TARGETS += $(1)-root

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fs/initramfs/initramfs.mk
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@ -23,4 +23,6 @@ define ROOTFS_INITRAMFS_CMD
$(SHELL) fs/initramfs/gen_initramfs_list.sh -u 0 -g 0 $(TARGET_DIR) > $$@
endef
ROOTFS_INITRAMFS_POST_TARGETS += linux26-rebuild-with-initramfs
$(eval $(call ROOTFS_TARGET,initramfs))

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linux/linux.mk
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@ -94,6 +94,19 @@ ifeq ($(BR2_INET_IPV6),y)
$(call KCONFIG_ENABLE_OPT,CONFIG_IPV6,$(@D)/.config)
else
$(call KCONFIG_DISABLE_OPT,CONFIG_IPV6,$(@D)/.config)
endif
ifeq ($(BR2_TARGET_ROOTFS_INITRAMFS),y)
# As the kernel gets compiled before root filesystems are
# built, we create a fake initramfs file list. It'll be
# replaced later by the real list, and the kernel will be
# rebuilt using the linux26-rebuild-with-initramfs target.
touch $(BINARIES_DIR)/rootfs.initramfs
$(call KCONFIG_ENABLE_OPT,CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD,$(@D)/.config)
$(call KCONFIG_SET_OPT,CONFIG_INITRAMFS_SOURCE,\"$(BINARIES_DIR)/rootfs.initramfs\",$(@D)/.config)
$(call KCONFIG_ENABLE_OPT,CONFIG_INITRAMFS_COMPRESSION_GZIP,$(@D)/.config)
else
$(call KCONFIG_DISABLE_OPT,CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD,$(@D)/.config)
$(call KCONFIG_SET_OPT,CONFIG_INITRAMFS_SOURCE,\"\",$(@D)/.config)
endif
$(TARGET_MAKE_ENV) $(MAKE) $(LINUX26_MAKE_FLAGS) -C $(@D) oldconfig
$(Q)touch $@
@ -127,6 +140,23 @@ linux26: host-module-init-tools $(LINUX26_DEPENDENCIES) $(LINUX26_DIR)/.stamp_in
linux26-menuconfig linux26-xconfig linux26-gconfig: $(LINUX26_DIR)/.stamp_configured
$(MAKE) $(LINUX26_MAKE_FLAGS) -C $(LINUX26_DIR) $(subst linux26-,,$@)
# Support for rebuilding the kernel after the initramfs file list has
# been generated in $(BINARIES_DIR)/rootfs.initramfs.
$(LINUX26_DIR)/.stamp_initramfs_rebuilt: $(LINUX26_DIR)/.stamp_installed $(BINARIES_DIR)/rootfs.initramfs
@$(call MESSAGE,"Rebuilding kernel with initramfs")
# Remove the previously generated initramfs which was empty,
# to make sure the kernel will actually regenerate it.
$(RM) -f $(@D)/usr/initramfs_data.cpio.*
# Build the kernel.
$(TARGET_MAKE_ENV) $(MAKE) $(LINUX26_MAKE_FLAGS) -C $(@D) $(LINUX26_IMAGE_NAME)
# Copy the kernel image to its final destination
cp $(LINUX26_IMAGE_PATH) $(BINARIES_DIR)
$(Q)touch $@
# The initramfs building code must make sure this target gets called
# after it generated the initramfs list of files.
linux26-rebuild-with-initramfs: $(LINUX26_DIR)/.stamp_initramfs_rebuilt
ifeq ($(BR2_LINUX_KERNEL),y)
TARGETS+=linux26
endif